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Arnold Krekel, who served from 1865 to 1888 as a US judge for the Western District of Missouri, was born on March 12, 1815, in Langenfeld, near Düsseldorf, in Prussia.

Paul Follenius, the cofounder with Friedrich Muench of the Giessen Emigration Society and the third son of a lawyer at the Hes

Kansas City’s sports fans might be forgiven for overlooking or choosing to forget that American League baseball did not begin in their city with the Royals in 1969. But before the Kansas City Royals, there were the Kansas City Athletics.

Henry Marvin Belden, a pioneer in the study of Missouri balladry and song, was born October 3, 1865, in Wilton, Connecticut, the second of five sons in an old New England family of modest means.

George Catlin was among the earliest Euro-American artists to paint the Indigenous peoples and landscapes of the Great Plains.

Jean Pierre Chouteau, known as Pierre, was a pioneer settler in St. Louis and the territory that was to become Missouri.

Between May 1804 and September 1806, the Lewis and Clark expedition made its way up the Missouri River, across the continental divide to the Pacific Ocean, and back to St. Louis.

In the early history of St. Louis and its trans-­Mississippi hinterlands, Auguste Chouteau occupied a place of singular importance.